Issue #157 · April 13, 2020

Web Skills

“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature”

Best 7 links of week #15, 2020

Web Skills

Web Skills

A visual overview of useful skills to learn as a web developer

Articles

Learn CSS Animations (free)

A fantastic FREE interactive video course on CSS animations provided by the lovely folks at Scrimba. The perfect Easter egg 🥚

React Patterns

A huge list of React design patterns from beginners to advanced developers. Simple examples, short descriptions, and quality advice.

The Web Almanac

The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive.

Book of the week

Reactive Programming with RxJava: Creating Asynchronous, Event-Based Applications

Reactive Programming with RxJava: Creating Asynchronous, Event-Based Applications

by Tomasz Nurkiewicz

In today’s app-driven era, when programs are asynchronous and responsiveness is so vital, reactive programming can help you write code that’s more reliable, easier to scale, and better-performing. With this practical book, Java developers will first learn how to view problems in the reactive way, and then build programs that leverage the best features of this exciting new programming paradigm.